It is important to note, however, that all email is able to be
forwarded on by recipients very easily. It is also susceptible to
various technological attacks that can allow others, such as governments,
telcos and hackers, to snoop on your messages. This is not specific to
this service, but is important to note. Therefore, for highly sensitive
communications, please consider other options.

Reporting Issues

Your Role

As a member of an online community, you have a responsibility for
maintaining the standards of that community.

Do not disclose private information. OnlineGroups.net will quickly
remove your ability to use its service if it deems that you have
breached the privacy of others.

Do not use this service to store information about others without
permission. For example, if you have a list of email addresses that you
are using to create a new group at OnlineGroups.net, people on that list
should know that you have collected their information.

Site administrators have special duty to maintain the privacy of the
members of their groups. Site administrators have access to email
addresses and other personally identifiable information.

Our Role

Our primary role is to maintain operational staility of the service. We
commit to keeping our systems up-to-date and maintain strong security
practices.

We maintain HTTPS valid certificates for this site. The connection
between your Internet browser and OnlineGroups.net is private and
secured via HTTPS. All traffic is encrypted. This makes it very unlikely
that anyone else has read or tampered with any of the information.

OnlineGroups.net has access to the messages and files that its members
share. We may, from time to time, inspect those messages to maintain
the operational stability of the system.

We work with site administrators to foster their online communities.
This sometimes requires inspecting messages that others have shared,
including within private groups.

While we strive to maintain private and secure communications, as so
much depends on the recipients of messages and other factors outside
of our control, we do not offer any guarantees. OnlineGroups.net
accepts no liability for breaches of privacy.

OnlineGroups.net Privacy Statement

Here we describe what information OnlineGroups.net collects about you
and why. This section also describes how that information is
stored and when it might be shared with others.

OnlineGroups.net Staff Have Access

OnlineGroups.net staff, including employees, contractors and
advisers, have access to content shared on via the service. Content
will only be retrieved to maintain the operational stability of the
site.

Your Profile

Your profile is consists of your name, your registered email
addresses, and other information that you can provided such as a
photo. This information is provided on an opt-in basis and can be
altered at any time.

The profile page is accessible to members of the groups that you
join. Your profile is available more widely if the group is public.

Your name and email addresses will be used as contact
information by site administrators that are part
of OnlineGroups.net.

When you send messages to the group, we send your name, email
address and photo along with it to other members.

When you post to a group that is visible to the public, the your
details will be visible to all visitors to the group. Your email
address remains hidden from anonymous visitors.

Your Credit Card and other Payment Information

We do not store our customers’ credit card data.
Our payment gateway is provided by
Payment Express,
a payments provider with customers in the USA, the UK, Europe, Asia and further afield.

Files and Messages

Files and messages that you post to OnlineGroups.net are
stored indefinitely so other group members can see what has been
discussed in the future.

All content that you post to your groups is visible to current and
future members of the group and the site
administrators.

Members who join in the future will be able to view messages made
in the past. Visitors to public groups may also view content
provided in the past.

Operational Activity Records

Many components of OnlineGroups.net record activities that are
occur. We use these records to diagnose errors and to help resolve
other operational issues.

We use your browser's "cookie" functionality to enable you to log in
and view your own messages in a secure manner. Cookies are also
used to track your usage of OnlineGroups.net, to see where our users
get stuck. We want to make sure that everything that we offer is
easy to find.

Non-personally identifiable information about the usage of
OnlineGroups.net is provided to third parties, such as Google via
its Google Analytics product.

Storage of information

All content sent via OnlineGroups.net is stored by us indefinitely
and backed up in multiple places.

Content that you send to a group cannot be deleted from receipients'
computers. OnlineGroups.net is only able to control content that it
hosts.

Disclosure of information

Your information will be not be disclosed to anyone else other than
when we are required by law. If we receive a lawful request for
information to be disclosed under statutory authority, we comply
fully.

Contact information

OnlineGroups.net is operated by Fiorenza Limited, a New Zealand
company.